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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Indian immigrant"”.
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Balancing act: an exploration of the impacts of acculturation amongst first-generation Indian immigrant youths in Canada
… stressors experienced by first-generation Indian immigrant youth in Canada, focusing on cognitive incongruence between home and host cultures. Using a mixed-method approach, qualitative interviews and surveys were conducted with six Indian individuals to examine cultural adaptation, …
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Let’s talk mental health: analysis of Indian immigrant women’s culturally centered mental health perceptions and identifying modifiers in interventions
… such as depression and anxiety are common among immigrant groups in the United States. Differences in cultural values and practices inform the variety of mental health perceptions and behaviors. Negative perceptions and barriers persist among Indian immigrant women due to stigma and fear of …
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Wedding Women to Tradition: The Politics of Marriage in the Indian Diaspora, 1947--2002
… In particular, the migration experience of Indian women was profoundly mediated by marriage and the family, as the majority migrated to the U.S. as wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters. I also explore the greater socio-economic diversity and novel social networks among Indian immigrants …
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Indian streets outside India : the construction of identity in Southall and Jackson Heights
This is a study of how street businesses owned by immigrant Indians in London and New York City construct an identity for themselves, and then lend that to the streets on which they operate. The research is conducted at Southall, a neighbourhood in West London, and at Jackson Heights in Queens, New …
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We are like this only : Desis and Hindi films in the Diaspora
… us understand how Hindi films are watched in the Indian- American diaspora and what viewers, situated in particular historical, socio-political contexts, bring to bear upon their engagement with these films. In spite of the sheer number of Hindi films released each year (150-200) and the …
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Queerly as the Night: Towards Post-Post-Colonialism, a Theory of Rhizomic Intelligence
… colonialism between an American daughter and her Indian, immigrant father, demonstrating the ways in which colonialism assigned to the prefix, “post,” meaning <em>after</em> or <em>subsequent to</em>, is a faulty and irresponsible negation of continued habitual and increasingly intangible …